The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-13

may be affected by the operation Of tarTla should
al all times be scrupulously kept in view and yet,
with slight reelection, they VIII not overlook the
fact that they consumers with the rest; that
they, too have their own wants and those OF their
families 10 supply from their earnings. and that the
prices of the lries OF lie, as well as the
amount of their wages will regulate the measure of
their welfare and comfort, but the reduction OF taxa
ton demanded should be measured as not to ne
cessate or justify either the loss of employment by
the workngman the lessening of his wages, and
the profits still lining to.the manufacturers after
for the sacrifice of the interests Of his employees
either in their opportunity TO work or in the
diminitiOn Of their compensation. Nor can
Understand uH5 @9tA''' that While high tariff
payment Of remunerative wages, it certainly results
in very large increase in the price of nearly all
forms he needs for the use of himself and his family
He receives at the desk of his employers his wages
and perhaps before he reaches his home is obliged
in purchase for family use OF an article when en-
braces his own labor, to return in the payment OF
the increase in price which the tariff permits, the
hard earned compensation of many days of toll.
The farmer and the agriculurist who manufacture
nothing but who pay the increased price which the
tariff imposes upon every agricultural implement
upon all he wears and upon all he uses and owned
except the increase of his ocks and herds and such
things as his husbandry produces from the soil, is
and he is told that high duty on imported wool is
necessary for the benefit of those who have sheep to
shear in ocdertha the price of their wool may be in
creased They of course, are not reminded that the
farmer who has sheep is by thtsscheme obliged IN
his purchases of clothing and WOODEN goods
to nay tribute to his fellow farmer well as to
the manufacturer and merchant; nor is any men
ton made of the fact that the sheep owners them
selves and their households must wear clothing
and use other articles manufactured from the wool
they sell at tariff prices and thus as consumers,
must return their share of this increased price to
the tradesman. / think it may be fairly assumed
that a large proportion of the sheep owned by the
farmers throughout the country are found in small
focks, numbering from twenty-five to fifty. The
duty on the grade of imported wool which these
sheepyeld is ten cents each pound if of the value
IF Of h s T 9sns Of morse tb nd S4y cents cents
If tine liberal estimate Of SIX pounds be allowed for
each fleece, the duty thereon would be sixty or
sixtytwo cents, and may be better taken as the ut
most enhancement of the price to the farmer by
reason Of this duty. Eighteen dollars would thus
represent the increased price of the wool from TWEEN
ty-fve sheep and thrty-six dollars that from the
wool OF fifty sheep, and at present values this addi
ton would amount to about one third of its price.
fupon It's sale the farmer receive this less tariff
profit the WoOlleaves his hands charged with pre-
csely that sum which is all its charges will adhere
to it, until it reaches the Consumer.
When manufactured into cloth and other
material for use its cost is not only increased to the
extent of the farmers tariff profit, but further sum
has been added for the benefit of the manufacturer
under the operation of other tariff laws. In the
meantime the day arrives when the farmer finds it
necessary TO purchase wooden clothes and material
to clothe himself and family for the winter. When
he faces the tradesman for that purpose he dis
covers that he is obliged not only to return in the
way Of increased prices his tariff profit on the wool
he sold and which them perhaps, lies before him in
manufactured form, but that he must add a con
siderable sum thereto to meet further increase in
cost caused by tariff duty on the manufacture.
Thus, in the end. he is aroused to
the fact that he paid upon moderate purchase as
his wool seemed so probable, an increase in price
than sufficient sweep away all the tariff pro-
fit proceived upon the wool produced and sold.
When the number of farmers engaged in wool rails
ing compared with all the farmers III the country
and the small proportion of population is consider
ed; when ii is made apparent that in the case OF
large part of those who own sheep the benefit of the
present tariff on wool is illusory; and above all